Hi I am currently building a server for my Wordpress sites and trying to get the best possible performance from my setup.

I am looking to use Varnish -> Apache setup for the web server, but as I want to use SSL for all sites I am looking for a SSL termination solution. I have looked at both HAProxy and pound, with pound looking go for just SSL termination.

Now do I setup pound -> Varnish -> Apache on one server, but looking at various posts SSL termination is resource intensive, so do I off load the Pound -> Varnish to a separate server and then have my Apache web server and Database on a different server.

Or finally do i just use the Linode Loadbalancer product to do the SSL termination?